SAN DIEGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—August 7, 2007—
Mapping California Communities will be the focus of beginner-level
workshops offered in San Diego to teach the fundamentals of using GIS
and Census data for community analysis. Presented by New Urban
Research Inc. the one-day workshop is designed for health researchers
and practitioners as well as other social service providers.

"Mapping California Communities: Introduction to GIS & Community
Analysis" will be held in San Diego on August 28th and August 29th.

Each workshop lasts one day and costs $399 per person. No previous
GIS experience is necessary. Information and registration are
available at www.urban-research.info.

"Any organization that seeks federal funding to perform public
health, economic or educational development is required to provide
demographic analysis on populations within specific geographic areas,"
said Gina Clemmer, President of New Urban Research. "We teach students
how to access Census data files online and then use the GIS to extract
specific demographic information and map the results down to the
neighborhood level."

New Urban Research, a professional social research organization,
customizes the GIS exercises and demonstrations in each class with
geographic and mapping data relating to the state where the workshop
is being held. During the class, participants will be shown how to
download Census data relating to poverty, race, language, education
and other variables for their communities and integrate these files
with their own data sets for analysis in the GIS.

Using ESRI ArcGIS 9.2 software, participants will leave the class
with a thorough understanding of three core GIS applications:

Workshop participants will also receive a free 30-day subscription
to the Shapefile Warehouse, an archive of Census Bureau data in
GIS-ready data files. For every county in the United States, New Urban
Research has obtained the 20 most common geographies (Street Networks,
Political Boundaries, Census Blocks/Tracts, Traffic, etc.) from 2005
Census TIGER files and converted them to ESRI shapefile formats ready
to import into a GIS. Participants may also purchase ESRI ArcGIS 9.2
site licenses at reduced rates from New Urban Research following the
workshop.

Introducing more than 6,000 participants to GIS technology in the
last year alone, New Urban Research receives high praise for its
hands-on workshops. According to a representative of the Women's
Prison Association in New York City, "(The workshop provided a) very
clear and comprehensive presentation on how to create analytically
useful and aesthetical maps. I like the structure of the workshop, the
relevance of the exercises and the additional materials and online
resources."

About New Urban Research Inc.

New Urban Research is a professional social research organization
with an emphasis on geographic information systems (GIS). It
specializes in offering one-day workshops for service providers,
planners and researchers who want to analyze their communities with
Census Data and GIS in the areas of health, poverty, housing,
discrimination, and other advocacy work. Along with public workshops,
New Urban Research offers customized workshops for agencies looking to
train a large group of employees to map and analyze their own data.